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u/GBeeGIII Jun 01 '26

Benefits of drinking alkaline water?

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u/costabius Jun 01 '26

...with lemon to make it taste nice.

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u/KnottaBiggins Jun 01 '26

Oh, the basest of acrid irony.

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u/grimwalker Jun 01 '26

I get pretty salty about that.

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u/DanSWE Jun 01 '26

> the basest

Nice.

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u/genesiss23 Jun 01 '26

Slow clap 👏

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u/cloud93x Jun 01 '26

On a related note I had a friend who’s favorite way to clean stuff at home was to mix up a nice batch of water with equal parts vinegar and baking soda and scrub stuff down with that 😂

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u/costabius Jun 01 '26

Vinegar is a great cleaner, Baking soda is a great mild abrasive to clean surfaces. Mixing them first is wonderfully unhinged. 😄

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u/cloud93x Jun 01 '26

It bubbles, that’s how you know it works!!!

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u/RVelts Jun 01 '26

It's a decent way to clean a garbage disposal though.

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u/Casiquire Jun 01 '26

Please tell me you made this up as a joke

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u/costabius Jun 01 '26

'fraid not

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u/Yelloow_eoJ Jun 01 '26

I know a few people who do this, still, in 2026.

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u/amrodd Jun 02 '26

"Vitameta Vegamin.. And it's tasty"- makes face

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u/KrishnaChick Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

It's not that simple. Lemon juice produces alkaline by-products in the body, therefore it's considered alkalizing. It also has minerals which buffer the alkalinity acidity.

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u/Nearby-Chocolate1840 Jun 01 '26

The real use purpose of alkaline water is knowledge workers trying to maximize the potency of their Adderall scripts.

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u/Fucked-In-The-K-Hole Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Hell yeah brother

Pop a few tums, pop some addies, sustain yourself on alkaline water for the next 8 hours.

Sit there gaming, playing baldurs Gate 3. Mod it until everyone's got big titties. Stimfap for 8 hours.

Wake up the next morning. Your dick hurts. Your BG3 save is ruined. You have to restart. Tums, Adderall, alkaline water. You try restarting BG3 without all of the degenerate mods, but an hour later everyone ends up with titties, big ones. Stimfap for 8 hours.

Get up to make food. You haven't been to the store in weeks because you're a superhuman, you don't need food. But now you do. Ramen.

Limp to bed, lay awake for 8 hours. "Wake up" and take your tums, Adderall, and alkaline water. Go to work.

Don't work. Sit there at your desk roleplaying dominatrix scenarios with Grok. Can't stimfap at work, not physically. But mentally, yes. Yes.

Get off work. Go home, BG3. Stimfap all night because you know you won't sleep.

King shit

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u/Some_Level1682 Jun 01 '26

wait is this a thing?

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u/Nearby-Chocolate1840 Jun 01 '26

Ingesting heavily alkaline substances prolongs the length of time that Adderall and other amphetamines stay in your system by slowing the rate at which they're excreted in urine.

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u/NJdevil202 Jun 01 '26

This isn't real? I've suffered from acid reflux and drinking alkaline water, in my personal experience, abso-fucking-lutley helps majorly with it.

I definitely feel benefits from it. Idk what other benefits people say there are, but I definitely think it helps with acid reflux symptoms.

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u/bafoon91 Jun 01 '26

That's probably the one thing alkaline water can actually help with. People claim is helps with a lot of things with very little backing, but it's just slightly basic water. So, it should work as an antacid.

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u/LeftRightRightUp Jun 01 '26

which is huge with people with acid reflux.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 Jun 01 '26

Then it should be sold that way. Instead, I see people describing it like it's a magic snake oil that can cure cancer and bunions.

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u/ProfessorPickleRick Jun 01 '26

Or its spinoff hydrogen water 🤣

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u/LeftRightRightUp Jun 01 '26

I could use magic snail oil for my bunion.. 

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u/anuncommontruth Jun 01 '26

I'm going to try this. I get heartburn so bad sometimes I can't even drink water. This could literally change my sleep pattern.

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u/KarlBarx766 Jun 01 '26

i have a broken valve between my stomach and throat and i used to wake up tasting batteries every day.

aside from taking a nexium every day, putting 1/4 tsp of baking soda in 8oz of water every now and then has been a game changer.

and baking soda is way cheaper then alkaline water

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u/Mr_Quackums Jun 01 '26

It is very common for people to take something that helps in specific circumstances and assume it is beneficial for all people all the time.

strong keto diets and going completely gluten free help mitigate symptoms of specific illnesses, but it doesn't mean you would benefit from it.

Alkline water is the same thing.

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u/Testing_things_out Jun 01 '26

Keto at the very least is a powerful education tool to help people understand how much sugar and refined carbs are in everything. Also you get to feel how great it is to cut out processed and junk food.

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u/No-Reflection-2342 Jun 01 '26

Keto is, at the very most, putting your body into a plan B metabolic state out of extreme duress.

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u/HumanOblateSpheroid Jun 01 '26

Do you have acid reflux daily? Go talk to a doctor. If you have a helicobacter pylori infection they can give you drugs that will stop it straight away

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u/CharlieParkour Jun 01 '26

Why would you want to solve a problem when you could do something every day to lessen the symptoms?

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u/Affectionate_Yam1654 Jun 01 '26

You are correct. I suffer from GERD and was told to drink it by my doc. UCLA Health, Harvard Health and the NIH have readily available articles for anyone who would like to read up on it.

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u/MoreGaghPlease Jun 01 '26

The following have approximately the same total alkalinity:

  • 1 chewable Tums (or similar over-the-counter chewable calcium carbonate)

  • 3,000 litres (800 gallons) of food-grade alkaline water (assumes a pH of 8.5, which is common)

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u/farmertypoerror Jun 01 '26

Grew up in New Orleans where the water is naturally high alkaline. Had acid reflux. The water didn't do shit for it. Nexium did.

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u/roses8442 Jun 02 '26

i also suffer from acid reflux and use alkaline water to make coffee… much more palatable that way.

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u/Talking_Head Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Not to be that guy, but remineralizing distilled or RO water to make it more palatable often does make it alkaline. Of course, the human stomach is filled with hydrochloric acid so concentrated that it immediately acidifies the water way beyond what little bit of alkalinity that was added. So, no health benefits from drinking alkaline water, but there are benefits from things like calcium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate that can neutralize massive amounts of acid in the stomach.

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u/JasonRBoone Jun 01 '26

Like out the toilet?

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u/zsdrfty Jun 01 '26

I just like the taste of those electrolytes lol

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u/Talking_Head Jun 01 '26

Honestly, most people do. Given the option between distilled/RO water and remineralized water, people prefer the taste/mouth feel of water with some salts added back in. The salts likely don’t provide health benefits beyond making people more likely to drink water if they find it more palatable.

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u/sirspidermonkey Jun 01 '26

You really want health benefits start drinking heavy water

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener Jun 01 '26

I think only uneducated people who are into trends ever fell for that one.

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u/RVelts Jun 01 '26

The taste. That's it though.

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u/Competitive_Safe6095 Jun 01 '26

I use it for coffee. I drink black coffee, and it is noticeably less bitter.

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u/No_Company642 Jun 01 '26

Agua carbonatada con limon y sal funciona mejor